NEWS & MEDIA
Pope Francis’ Letter for the World Meeting of Families 2018
The details of a letter from Pope Francis regarding the ninth World Meeting of Families were released by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Prefect of the Holy See's new office for Laity, Family, and Life, and...
Reflections: The Fifth Sunday of Lent
Living Life to the Full Are we living our lives, or are we sleepwalking through life? God has given us the gift of life and desires us to make the most of it. Yet how often are we just going through...
Message from Archbishop Eamon Martin for St Patrick’s Day 2017
On this Feast of our Patron Saint, I send warm greetings from the Cathedral City of Saint Patrick in Armagh to Irish people everywhere. Today unites the Irish at home with our relatives and friends...
Reflections: The Third Sunday of Lent
Gospel Reflection for the Third Sunday of Lent The Gospel (4:5-42). A spring of water welling up to eternal life. This is a rather lengthy reading containing different themes. Central themes are the...
The MSC Welcome a New Provincial Superior
The Irish Province of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart are pleased to announce the election of Fr Carl Tranter MSC as their next Provincial Superior. He will take over from the present...
MSC Provincial Chapter 2017
“To be on Earth the Heart of Christ” This year’s Provincial Chapter takes place between March 5th and 12th at the Emmaus Retreat Centre in Swords, Co. Dublin. The theme of this year’s Chapter is “To...
Message from Pope Francis for Lent 2017
The Word is a gift. Other persons are a gift. Dear Brothers and Sisters, Lent is a new beginning, a path leading to the certain goal of Easter, Christ’s victory over death. This season urgently...
Reflections: The First Sunday of Lent
First Sunday of Lent In the desert, Jesus is confronted with many temptations. Hunger and thirst, and the emptiness and quietness of the desert strip away all that stands between Jesus and his...
Welcome to our all-new MSC website!
This spring, we are delighted to unveil a new look for the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. With a new design, a new logo, and a new and improved website, we’re looking to the future as we continue...
Celebrating God’s Gift of Joy at Flame
For Cardinal Tagle it was all about mercy. For the youth it was an opportunity to gather to celebrate faith. For the MSC Vocations team it was all about the Smarites! Flame 2 was the largest Catholic Youth Event in UK in 2015. It brought together amazing speakers like...
Walking the Camino in 2015
You've heard about it from a friend. Perhaps you saw the movie. You know, the one with Martin Sheen. Maybe you stumbled across it somewhere online. For whatever reason as the New Year begins you're thinking of walking the Camino, but you're not sure where to start....
Celebrating Christmas
This year it seems that Christmas has crept up on me. In the midst of the busyness of meetings, carol concerts and shopping all my hopes for Advent were quietly forgotten. As I was thinking this morning of something to write about for our vocations blog I came across...
Celebrating the Year of Consecrated Life
Vocations ministry in Ireland is busy at the best of times, but it looks like 2015 is going to be exceptional! Pope Francis has continued to revolutionise and encourage the Church by designating November 30th 2014 until February 2nd 2016 the Year of Consecrated Life....
Summer of Love with MSC Vocations
It has been a summer of celebration for the MSC vocations team, filled with festivals, pilgrimages and volunteering. Most exciting of all we opened our new student community in Dublin on September 8th with two candidates, Kevin and Henry. But let’s not get ahead of...
Day of Celebration for MSC Vocations
It's a real day of celebration for the Chevalier Family. Today we have three young adults entering formation in Dublin, two with the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC) and one with our sister congregation, the Daughters of our Lady of the Sacred Heart (OLSH). It...
An Amazing Time with MSC Volunteering
Clare Brady, a nurse from Monaghan, shares her experience in South Africa with MSC Volunteering. We arrived in South Africa on 12th June and traveled to Holy Family Care Centre with Fr Frank Bray one of the MSC priests. On arrival to Holy Family we were greeted by the...
Medjugorje Youth Fest. Welcomes the World
The first thing that strikes you when you arrive for the first time for the Medjugorje Youth Festival is the heat. It's hot and I mean roasting. The second thing you notice is the sheer diversity of young people gathered from all around the world for a week of prayer,...
Shelter from the Storm on the Camino
Travelling Light and The Journey are the themes of two of the biggest Christian festivals this summer. It seems that the idea of being a pilgrim is becoming increasingly popular in our world today. It's not really a surprise, as many of the aspects of a pilgrimage...
Lions, Cheetahs and MSC Volunteers
It's another day in the Holy Family Centre ( HFC ) during the winter holidays. Along with the staff the MSC Volunteers took the kids out to Moholoholo Animal Rescue and Game Preserve. The children were roared at by lions, got chased by a cheetah and were able to pet a...